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“When building a machine as large and as complex as ITER, difficulties and setbacks do not come as surprises - they are an integral part of manufacturing, assembling and installing first-of-a-kind components,” the ITER Organisation said recently.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 25 November 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsiter-says-essential-key-components-repairs-will-impact-schedule-10381371
The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) project has announced defects have been discovered in the thermal shields and vacuum vessel sectors and warned that the consequences on schedule and cost "will not be insignificant".
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 23 November 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Defects-found-in-two-key-components-of-ITER-tokama
On 28 April, Russia sent the IAEA a refutation of disinformation about the irradiation of soldiers at the Chernobyl NPP. The Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to International Organisations in Vienna sent a note to the IAEA Secretariat “in connection with the dissemination by a number of media of unreliable information about the actions of the Russian Armed Forces at the Chernobyl NPP”.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 04 May 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrussia-refutes-cnn-report-about-chernobyl-9671073
Thirty-five years on from the Chernobyl accident, Ukraine and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have highlighted their commitment to cooperation in nuclear power. Meanwhile Ukraine’s nuclear regulator has launched the start of operations at a new storage facility for used nuclear fuel at the Chernobyl site.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 28 April 2021
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Title
Atommash has completed hydraulic tests on the first steam generator for the Kursk II nuclear power plant under construction in Western Russia, which will be the first to use the VVER-TOI (typical optimised, with enhanced information) reactor design. Atommash is part of Atomenergomash, the engineering division of state nuclear corporation Rosatom.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 05 September 2020
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Kursk-II-completes-steam-generator-hydraulic-tests
In line with plans to reduce its stockpile of depleted uranium hexafluoride (DUHF), a waste produce to uranium enrichment, enterprises of Russia’s Fuel Company TVEL (part of state nuclear corporation Rosatom) plans to build a new facility for the treatment of DUHF. The Central Design and Technological Institute (TSPI) and the Ural Electrochemical Plant (UECP) in Novouralsk, Sverdlovsk Region) had signed an agreement for the development a project to create a W-EHF facility in Novouralsk for defluorination of DUHF.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 14 August 2020
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrussia-to-build-an-additional-facility-to-process-dufh-8080917
Non-destructive testing specialists at Russia’s Tomsk Polytechnic Institute (TPU) is to develop methods for checking the reliability of seams on components of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) reactor, TPU said on 11 August. The specialists will develop methods and programmes for testing welded joints using ultrasound on important elements of the ITER fusion reactor, under construction in France.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 14 August 2020
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrussian-institutes-develop-welding-quality-control-method-for-iter-8081695
Finnish waste management company Posiva has announced the start of construction of the used fuel encapsulation plant at Eurajoki, near the Olkiluoto in western Finland.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 27 June 2019
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsfinland-begins-construction-of-used-fuel-encapsulation-plant-7279817